Here are our newest editions and they are adorable! Sierra, the mama, is my little Shetland ewe. She was bred to Simon my Rambouilette ram and gave birth to these two little cuties a week and a half ago. It was a far cry from the ones that lambed in March. We had no intention of having babies that early but the girls had plans of their own and dug under the fence to frolic with the rams. The little hussies! The drawback of that is that all of that batch had babies during our coldest winter in many years and we also had no way of telling who the daddies were. We lost a few ear tips to frostbite but luckily we did not lose any lambs. We have one ewe left to lamb…another opps…and hopefully we will be done with babies for the year. We are currently looking for a bigger place so that we can have room for our ever expanding herd and have some more obstacles in between the ewes and the rams so there will be no more “ewes gone wild!”

I am a former Montana farm girl now living in the city. I am a fiber artist,spinner and weaver. As the old saying goes, you can take the girl off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the girl. Even though I live in the city, I am experimenting with alternatives that will allow me to practice homesteading skills and learn traditional skills as a suburban house wife. I believe we can all make our lives more simple, eco-friendly and self-sufficient no matter where we live. Follow my adventures as I learn, practice, succeed and fail in things like: canning, raising small farm animals like sheep and rabbits, weaving and spinning wool, hunting, tanning, gardening, sewing, crafting, making cheese and other dairy products, and anything else I get a wild hair to learn.